36 Facts About Giovanni Muscedere

Giovanni Muscedere grew up in an Italian-speaking household and he always spoke with an Italian accent, which he tried to hide by mumbling.

Giovanni Muscedere enjoyed some success as an amateur boxer, but his early marriage and his first child's birth prevented him from becoming a professional boxer as he would have liked, forcing him to take a job in order to support his family.

Giovanni Muscedere worked at a factory making automobile brakes in Chatham from 1979 until his murder, a job he hated as he found it very dull, but it gave him a good salary.

Giovanni Muscedere had a strong sense of masculinity informed by traditional Italian values, for instance always paying the child support payments to both his ex-wives on time and in full on the grounds it was dishonourable for a father to let down his children.

In 1997, Giovanni Muscedere joined the Annihilators Motorcycle Club led by Wayne "Weiner" Kellestine.

At the time, Giovanni Muscedere was in a stressful second divorce and he came to find that Kellestine's farmhouse at 32196 Aberdeen Line outside of Iona Station to be a refuge from his troubles.

Giovanni Muscedere deeply believed in biker "brotherhood", being known as a man who was utterly loyal to his friends.

Giovanni Muscedere did not share Kellestine's views about non-whites, Jews or homosexuals, but Kellestine was the man who let him join the Annihilators, which made him his biker "brother".

At the time that Giovanni Muscedere joined the Loners, he became close to another Loner and fellow Italian-Canadian, Frank "Bammer" Salerno, who to a certain extent displaced Kellestine as his best friend as Giovanni Muscedere and Salerno would chat in Italian.

On 2 February 2002, Giovanni Muscedere attended the London Auto Show and hugged Mario "Mike the Wop" Parente, the Outlaw national president.

Giovanni Muscedere donated money to help Kellestine pay his mortgage and forced the Bandidos to do so as well, despite the way that Kellestine was not popular.

Atkinson later stated that he left the Bandidos because of Giovanni Muscedere's leadership, saying Giovanni Muscedere was addicted to cocaine, his judgement was poor, he lacked political savvy and was not connected to reality, preferring to focus on promoting so-called biker "brotherhood" by devoting much time to the design of Christmas cards to his fellow Bandidos instead of making difficult decisions.

However, Giovanni Muscedere was regarded as loyal to his friends and he often said he did everything "top left", which his way of saying "from the heart".

Giovanni Muscedere submitted to the ultimatum after Brunette begged him to accept, and stated that henceforward the Bandidos would expand into Western Canada, with Giovanni Muscedere talking about a drive to the Pacific.

Giovanni Muscedere called the Quebec Bandidos "cowards" for submitting to the ultimatum.

Giovanni Muscedere was greatly offended that the men from the new chapter in Winnipeg that was trying to establish at the same time as a chapter in Edmonton did not show up for Morin's funeral while he and other Toronto chapter members attended.

In July 2004, Giovanni Muscedere toured western Canada and opened a new Bandido chapter in Winnipeg, whose members were only probationary members.

On 24 July 2004, Giovanni Muscedere sent out an email to all Canadian Bandidos announcing that his girlfriend Nina Lee was about to give birth, and his expansion into Western Canada had finally worked.

In November 2004, Lenti quit the Bandidos, saying that Giovanni Muscedere was addicted to cocaine and Kellestine was insane, and he was tired of dealing with both of them.

The Bandidos Toronto chapter lacked a clubhouse, and for a time in 2003 and 2004, Giovanni Muscedere used as their clubhouse the basement of a Greek restaurant, which George Kriarakis had been able to rent.

Giovanni Muscedere had Michael "Little Mikey" Trotta rent out as the Bandidos clubhouse a property on Jefferson Avenue in Liberty Village in Toronto in January 2005.

The Bandidos were not a profitable group as Giovanni Muscedere had his Telus and Fido cellphone accounts cut off in the first half of 2005 owing to his inability to pay his phone bills.

Giovanni Muscedere owed $150.67, Paul "Big Paulie" Sinopoli $191.23, Michael Trotta $88.77, George "Pony" Jessome $136.66 and Wayne Kellestine $88.33.

Giovanni Muscedere was replaced as president by Jeff Pike, who was critical of the Canadian Bandidos.

On 28 December 2005, the American leadership of the Bandidos, who had grown increasingly unhappy with Giovanni Muscedere's leadership, expelled him and his followers, charging that they were failing to make money, not paying their monthly membership dues because they did not have the money, and were going about business in a "sloppy" manner, leaving them wide open to prosecution.

In defense of Giovanni Muscedere, Salerno wrote in an email to Carleton "Pervert" Bare, the secretary of the Bandidos in the US, that the national president had tried five times to visit Houston.

Sandham had written emails to Houston denouncing Giovanni Muscedere for refusing to grant "full patches" to the Winnipeg chapter, which was the first time Houston had learned that there was a Bandido chapter in Manitoba.

Giovanni Muscedere took the expulsions, together with loss of their right to wear the Bandido patches, very badly, writing in an email to an American Bandido Keinard "Hawaiian Ken" Post, which, reflecting his semi-literate status, was full of spelling and grammatical errors together with a complete disregard for punctuation and capitalization, that read:.

Pike was greatly displeased by the refusal of the "no surrender crew" to return their patches together with Giovanni Muscedere's call for a vote to allow the Toronto chapter to stay, bluntly announcing the "Bandido Nation" was not a democracy.

In January 2006, Giovanni Muscedere went to Denmark and Germany to meet the Danish and German Bandido leaders, seeking their support against the American leaders.

Kellestine, who frequently consumed the drugs he was supposed to sell and who was deeply in debt with the bank frequently threatening to foreclose on his farm he brought in 1982, had discovered that selling methamphetamine was a lucrative business, and was greatly annoyed when Giovanni Muscedere had ordered him to stop selling methamphetamine under the grounds that it was wrong.

Giovanni Muscedere was addicted to cocaine, but he felt that selling methamphetamine was wrong and forbade all Bandidos from selling "crystal meth".

Giovanni Muscedere defended Flanz, saying he was not a police informer and asked Kellestine to stop tormenting Flanz.

Giovanni Muscedere's funeral was held at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Chatham where his younger Cesideio Giovanni Muscedere praised him as a man devoted to his family and biker "brothers".

The autopsy revealed that Giovanni Muscedere had drunk no alcohol or used any drugs on the night of his murder, making him alongside George "Crash" Kriarakis and Paul "Big Paulie" Sinopoli to be the only ones to be drug-free as autopsies found alcohol, cocaine, oxycodone, heroin and marijuana in the blood of the other victims.

Edwards wrote that most of the victims were weak men who were attracted to the Bandidos less because they were criminals and more out of a desire to appear important and powerful, but Giovanni Muscedere stood half-way between the gangsters masquerading as bikers and the weak, insecure men pretending to be powerful because they were Bandidos.